Károly Bárd

University degree in law and political science from the Pázmány Péter University (1949), and in social science at the Eötvös Loránd University (1957). Gained arbitration practice at the Court of Arbitration organised beside the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Main specialist fields are private law, company law, insurance law, damages, competition (cartel) law, intellectual properties law. He gained his expert knowledge on insurance law (and in litigation) through his long period as Chief Legal Adviser and Managing Director with the Hungarian State Insurance Company as well as being the first Chairman of the State Insurance Supervisory Body in Hungary, in international commercial law being the Chief Legal Adviser for years of the biggest Hungarian foreign trade company and its representative also abroad. Honorary associate lecturer at the university, invited lecturer at the Institute of Post-graduate Legal Studies of Eötvös Loránd University. He is Honorary Chairman of the AIDA (the International Association for Insurance Law), chairman of the Hungarian section of AIDA (the Insurance Law Section of the Hungarian Legal Association). Member of the professional board of the Italian magazine Assicurazioni and of the editorial board of "Insurance Law Review"; honorary PIA member and member of the Legal Board of the Hungarian Autoclub. Author of several legal articles and commentaries, active participant in codification of several laws and regulations. Partner of Bárd, Cseri & Partners Attorney at Law (its predecessor Eörsi & Partners Attorney at Law) since 1989.

Main language skills are in German, English (passive French and Italian).